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need to merge this thread with this one: https://wineberserkers.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=66339

waiting . . .

Alex Valdes wrote: ↑
September 29th, 2020, 12:10 pm
Is your head in the same place? Curious as to your thoughts.

I’ve been so wrong that I wouldn’t even listen to myself! Never would have thought Rousseau Chambertin would be $3000 a bottle, dozens of other examples. No idea where we go from here with Burgundy.

gonna wait till there is at least a set of 6 or 12. One cup won’t help.

1990 DRC La Tâche released in 1993 for $233/bottle. Put that in an inflation calendar and fast forward to 2020 and $233 is worth $419.11, up 79.9% yet it sells for $6000. S&P in 1993 was 435.23, now 3338.99, rise of 767% while that DRC bottle is up 2575%. So it depends on the time frame chosen to m...

1990 DRC La Tâche released in 1993 for $233/bottle. Put that in an inflation calendar and fast forward to 2020 and $233 is worth $419.11, up 79.9% yet it sells for $6000. S&P in 1993 was 435.23, now 3338.99, rise of 767% while that DRC bottle is up 2575%. So it depends on the time frame chosen to m...

1990 DRC La Tâche released in 1993 for $233/bottle. Put that in an inflation calendar and fast forward to 2020 and $233 is worth $419.11, up 79.9% yet it sells for $6000. S&P in 1993 was 435.23, now 3338.99, rise of 767% while that DRC bottle is up 2575%. So it depends on the time frame chosen to ma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Troisgros nouvelle cuisine and many other advances, passed Sep 23, 92 years old, the restaurant with 3 Michelin stars for 52 years. Had the best two meals of my life there. and a lovely French tribute: https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpe...

I have fennel seeds and pollen. I can buy fennel for fronds. What’s the powder? Sounds great. Love fennel.

how’d you do the pork roast?

compared to 2017? Same level?

(One sideline on the 2005 A & L Lignier--I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the wines were made by Hubert. This was the time after his son's death when many things about the estate were up in the air.) I have it in my notes that by this 2005, Kellen was making the wines, but I could be ...

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
September 27th, 2020, 12:29 pm
Oh dear. Alan is going to make such fun of me this month......

it’s chuckle time again already . . .

Another mostly lurker here. I am a wine enthusiast (collector would be inaccurate) and have learned a lot from this board. Despite many attempts to broaden my palate, 70% or more of the wines I drink are French. When I venture out of the comfort zone with French reds, more often than not, my husban...

my biggest wine collection regret is not cellaring more lower level wines. The distance between premier cru and grand cru burgundies fades at 25+ years. Much more fun opening an amazing $30 wine than an expected epiphany $250 bottle.

c fu wrote: ↑
September 26th, 2020, 8:56 pm
Had 6oz left in the bottle so poured it into a 4oz bottle

that’s a real trick. Negative ullage!

The word worth only means something when the words "to me" follow it . . . So I think so, though I bought my Egly for a lot less. first sentence is always true . . . and the second makes me curious because less is more. I’ll seek out a bottle and worry about price (and volume) down the road. Thanks...

Sarah Kirschbaum wrote: ↑
September 26th, 2020, 12:00 pm

wrote:I wish it weren't so expensive now, relatively speaking, but it is still worth it.
about $100 on w-s pro. Is it worth twice Ployez-Jacquemart rosé?

Kent Comley wrote: ↑
September 25th, 2020, 10:07 pm
I had this wine a few years ago. Was rather oaky and blocky, glad that it had come around.

his note was from 2010.

with the significant price hikes, maybe the name should be changed to Heights.

m. ristev wrote: ↑
September 25th, 2020, 5:19 pm
any visible color difference between the bottlings?

virtually identical. I’ve had poxed bottles and poxed CSH—that hurt.

wife won’t drink riesling so daughter’s boyfriend stepped up to help. The 375eme comes from a special plot and was for the anniversary of that year in 2001 for the Trimbach estate. The wines are too close to call. Both are super. Maybe a touch more lift and density in the 375eme. Lots of life left i...

Misprint. They dropped the 1 before the 97.

Indirectly related to this thread, but I'd be curious to know which wines have been confirmed to be held back by estates compared to the release date of their other wines. Mugnier Musigny is a known one, but Roulot is now also holding back their Meursault Perrières in 2018. I am not aware of others...

EvanLodes wrote: ↑
September 24th, 2020, 5:02 am

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2020, 8:51 pm
18 PYCM Chassagne Montrachet Chenevottes
I'm curious, is there any particular reason why this one vs. other PYCM wines of the same vintage? (I haven't had this one yet)

Offer came in while I was weak.

so you liked it? Congrats on a quarter century of wine enjoyment.

Richard Gold: How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar Still valuable.

NJBruce wrote: ↑
September 23rd, 2020, 6:42 am
2001 Clos des Lambrays - increasingly delicious and moving up through the gears; hard to find now - I was lucky to find a few cases in Belgium 10 years back. CT reviews & scores have been heading up since 2018....

Kevin Harvey of Rhys used to tout this wine. It was about $35 then . . . and lovely.

nice to know they are fanatical about customer service. Not fanatical enough to have wine they say they have, not fanatical enough to inform the customer timely . . .

Alan, You have been searching for 2014 Ramonet for months, if not years. Did you really think that some random place had a case at thirty percent below market value? you’ve sold me some great wines at even better prices—even some Ramonet Batard. And I’ve scored at other places. I expected to be tol...

This place has the same wine, case only, and does a better job at disclosing that this is a sourced wine, and it might not be in stock. Maybe try again with them Doc? [wink.gif] https://shop.corxwines.com/vsku2132181_DOMAINE-RAMONET-CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET-LES-CAILLERETS-750ML-2014 saw that, Mr. Enabl...

As of now, still listed by them as available.

There was nothing that told me this was special order. Here’s their response to my complaint, promise to post on this site, and request that they source it: Hello Alan, I apologize that you are disappointed, but it's not uncommon practice for special orders to be out of stock and we won't/don't know...

Order acknowledged Sep 5. Noted that credit card not charged till shipped. Today they reneged, more than 2 weeks later. Cross this store off the wine-searcher list.

Barry L i p t o n wrote: ↑
September 20th, 2020, 11:24 am

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
December 27th, 2019, 7:32 am
speaking of QPR: La Chablisienne
Have you had the 2017 La Chablisienne Mont de Milieu? Envoyer has it in.

yes. No notes but lovely.

I guess we repeat this thread every few years. My story is similar. A friend took me to dinner in late 1984 and opened a 1975 BV GdL PV. BLEW ME AWAY. Loaned me a book by Alexis Bespaloff and I stayed up all night reading it, went the next day with him to Trader Joe’s and spent the outrageous sum of...

Jim Stewart wrote: ↑
September 19th, 2020, 3:33 pm
Some bubbles and mouse in the glass

hope it didn’t drink much since you only opened a 375

yes, tell me more. Just a different bottling of gold or what? How’s it differ?

10 cc. I was thinking quite small bottles. Hard to get the cork out.

wouldn’t it be the wines of the discerning Rajat Parr?

18 PYCM Chassagne Montrachet Chenevottes

J a y H a c k wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2020, 12:59 pm

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
September 17th, 2020, 6:36 pm
buy a Pungo.
I did that but I rarely use it because it seems to leak all over the place when I am initially extracting wine.

they’ll service it. Shouldn’t happen.

Todd F r e n c h wrote: ↑
September 18th, 2020, 9:20 am

alan weinberg wrote: ↑
September 17th, 2020, 6:36 pm
buy a Pungo.
Interested to hear why Pungo is better - I'm about to bite on one of these systems

generic cartridges
Better flow
Great service
Works under lower pressure—no exploding bottles.

No affiliation, happy customer.

skipped it due to Sturgis. Got up to Jackson Hole. Will have to visit dead Presidents another time.

list of 100 best restaurants came out and many from Charleston: https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersCh ... ining-g191

You know, my opinion is that every vintage goes thru phases. Great vintages, you hardly notice, because the wines are so good, but the less than great, but OK vintages, the phases are more noticeable. 2001 for quite a while would seem to go in and out of being "closed" then Open, then back to close...

Remember what they said about Cros Parantoux? even through WW2 it was a vegetable field filled with large rocks. Sunchokes grew there. Jayer lived on them through the famine of WW2 and later said he could never look at one again. He bought the various small holdings of CP owned by others and dynami...

has he made a bad wine?

buy a Pungo.

Cool. Love the poolside chairs. Furniture would go well w my wine cellar flooring made of wine barrels.

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